Jeremy Odom (7:14)
Well, there you go. That's from where's the Line? You can find new episodes every single week anywhere. There's that. You find your favorite podcast and on ESPN Radio in the Tri Cities, Nebraska. Now it's on to the main event. This is the Rewind edition, which means we are giving you the goods. This is a classic episode. Classic moments from Laugh With Me. This is from story time with Jo. Number four debuted October 1, 2024. Enjoy. Something happened to me today and frankly, it needed to be shared to the masses. I mean there's, you know, sometimes an event or a. Something in a situation, an altercation, as in this case happens to you and you need to share it. I've had those instances in the past and I've shared with you as you know, if you've been a loyal listener of Laugh With Me. You know that I am a pepper spray attack survivor. Okay? I have been pepper sprayed in the line of duty. And you know what? I won that one. I got my groceries back, okay? The thief ran away with nothing but lack of self confidence. Basically they gave me everything that they had and I walked away with burning all over my head, eyes, face. But I got my groceries and that's. Is that really what mattered? That was quite the day. You can go back in the archives and hear all about that today. Man, I don't know what it is about work, but people are getting wild out there. And this time I didn't, I didn't do okay. This time they gave it me. I, I will say last time when I got pepper sprayed, yeah, I was a little aggressive to try to get my groceries back. Okay? I did I have to go out in the parking lot and try to take the cart with the groceries back? No, I didn't have to do that. I could have let, let them have their groceries and we would have taken the whatever couple hundred dollar loss or whatever it is and I would never have been able to tell my tale. But I did get the groceries back. And nobody got hurt, right? Nobody got hurt. This time there really wasn't anything to gain or lose other than, you know, the, the possible end game scenarios within what, what transpired here today. I'm gonna get into it. It, it's, it's sad really. But what I think is important to talk about is what could have been, okay? What could have been on the other side because it's kind of fun and interesting to think about because you know, at the end I could, I could have been a legend. You know, they would have been talking about me for years and decades and maybe even centuries to come. But you know what? Instead I just handle my damn business and we'll have to worry about it. But either way, this week's episode of Laugh With Me officially. Story time. Jo, I highly recommend grabbing a beer for this one because I'm sure of it. This morning at 5:50am Somebody was drinking. It wasn't me. I wanted to after, but it wasn't me. No, no. But the customer that walked to the gas station this morning had to be. I mean, he had to have been on something. Whether it was he was drunk or on some kind of like painkillers. I don't know, maybe he's just going through some shit mentally and. And it kind of just caught up to him. Here's the thing. I could have been decapitated today. Now, I wasn't, right, JoJo? Because I handled my damn business, okay? Now when somebody says, I'm going to rip your head off, you handle your damn business. What. What could he have done? He could have ripped my damn head off. And it's, that's the thing. It would have been very rare. It doesn't happen very often anymore. It used to. I looked it up. I was looking at even just like in the United. I mean, decapitations used to happen all over the world, apparently. It was quite the deal in the United States. We don't have as many of these types of situations anymore. And most of them have to do with, you know, in a relationship where either the guy's upset with the girl, the girl's upset with the guy. That's generally the situation in the United States of why somebody gets decapitated. You know, from 1978 to 1991, it was a rare deal where it was just one guy named Jeffrey Dahmer and he was out decapitating. I mean, 16 of his victims, in fact, lost their heads. Not the situation here. But yeah, it's. It's actually, it's pretty interesting when you, when you actually go back and read everybody who's ever just had their head torn off. And it really, a lot of it is just has to do with relations here. This one not relationship related. This guy, Adam Walsh, 1981, abducted from a Sears department store at the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida. And his head was found in a drainage canal two weeks after he was murdered. Two weeks after. That's probably. That's. I'm gonna go ahead and go on the. On the Record is saying that's the beginning of the end for Sears. That's when people stopped going to Sears. 1981. Yeah, it was still a major player in the retail game, you know, in 81 and after. But that was the beginning of the downfall. People were scared they're going to lose their heads. I'm calling it. You heard it here first, guys, and that's just to the United States. You look at, you know, let's go to Sweden. See most Sweden, Sweden's had it better than us. The last time they lost somebody getting their head cut off was in 1910 and it was because of the using the guillotine for execution. You know, actually the guillotine was a very popular form of execution all over the world, but for the most part it's illegal now. A lot of fictional characters have lost their heads as well. Some that we have enjoyed, some maybe that we haven't. Something we went ed Truck from the office, he lost his head. I forgot all about that. There's a bunch of people throughout the like the Final Destination series that lost their head. None in the first Final Destination, But Final Destination 2, Nora Carpenter lost her head. Man, it's wild. Freddy Krueger. Freddy Krueger and Freddy versus Jason decapitated. Isn't that something? Oh, Boss Tanaka and Kill Bill fight one. I forgot all about that one. Oh, Tortuga and Breaking Bad. A lot of people remember that. I'm sure that's a pretty relevant and newish one. Here's spoiler alert. If you haven't seen Deadpool and Wolverine, Sabertooth was decapitated. That's the deal. A lot of people have been just not a lot recent. And that's where today's story comes in. I very well could have been on my name on this list. 2024 gas station lost his head. That's what it would have said. It probably would have said something like Jeremy Odom, host of Laugh with Me and Bottom five Podcast. Super popular podcasts. Decapitated at work. That's, that's probably what it was said. So here's what happened. Sorry, I had to stretch. Sometimes we just have to get ready. Like I feel like I'm gonna, I'm gonna be in a fight again. So, you know, we're opening up the store and it's, it's actually a pretty busy morning and we're selling stuff. It's me and my co worker, we're both running the registers because in the morning you get that morning rush and it's just, it's non stop. People buying coffee, donuts, breakfast sandwiches, you know, blah, blah. And we had a little bit of a lull. This older guy comes in, probably 70 years old, looks like he's been through the ringer a little bit. He comes in and he just starts going on about how he had been shot and we're like, oh shoot, you know, do you need to go to the Hospital. And he goes, you try to go like, well, I did, like, I had this whole thing with my Crohn's and I was bleeding and then, you know, it's like I was losing iron and this. So anyway, I didn't, like, I didn't want to, like, go through my whole medical history with him and be like, yeah. And then it was just disputes with the doctors and blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I ended up getting what I needed and I feel great today. I didn't want to, like, go through all that. So I was just like, yeah, yeah, man, if you got shot, though. And he. He's like, yeah, I get shot every day. I'm like, that's. That's probably not the case. I mean, he didn't look bloody and he didn't appear to have any issue with blood loss and. Or in pain for that matter. And he. He's going on about how he works for the police kind of like undercoverish. And he was driving to get this bad guy and they were, they were shooting at him, which is a common issue for him. And then, you know, he doesn't have a car, though. And then he. He's going on and on and on about how he. He's. He's got this wife, but he doesn't. And he is in town for a funeral, which is funny because my co worker actually went to high school with this guy and was like, oh, you're so and so. And he's like, oh, yeah. Oh yeah, yeah. And they, they knew each other. And then there is a funeral on Saturday that they would both know and she's like, oh, so you're in town for, you know, this person? And he goes, oh, no. Probably another one. Classic answer when you don't want to say who you're in town for a funeral for when there. There isn't one. When. When that's just like your go to. Anyway, he lives in Colorado, but he's in town for a funeral and then he doesn't have a car. And then he's just like going up to this other customer and he's like, hey, can you like, get me a coffee? This customer's like, sure, I'll buy you coffee. It's like a dollar. So he get. He goes and gets his coffee and then he leaves, you know, no big problem. He. He like just walks out of the store. Awesome. See you later. And I'm. I'm thinking like, all right, well, how many hot dogs I need to get on the rollers? Like, kind of looking through orders like you know, that Zen. You guys know what those Zen, like the nicotine pouches they. People put in their. In their lips, like, those are flying. But they can't keep up with the stock because the trend's so high. It's like, I really. I think about that a lot because. Not. Not because I don't want to do it. I don't want to use it, but I'm just, you know, how do I get more for the customer? So then my co worker, though, is concerned because this guy, she's like, I hope he left. So then. Because he just seemed off, which, yes, he did. So I go outside and I start walking around. I don't see him. I'm like, okay, well, I'm going back in because I really need to start ordering this in. And then next thing you know, he comes walking up the front sidewalk, and I'm like, he's back. He comes in the store. Immediately. There's only like one or two other customers in the store. They're buying their goods and. Or, you know, grabbing whatever they need in the store. And then he comes up to the front counter and he, He. He says to me and my co worker, and he's like, I've been shot and nobody will call anybody. I'm like, well, what do you need? Like, we'll certainly call who you ever you need. And he goes, call anybody, but do not call. And then he named our county their police. Okay, buddy? And he looks at me and he goes, where do you live? And I go, that doesn't matter. He immediately starts yelling at the top of his lungs about how I'm a fucking idiot, how it does matter, and how he went and fought for me, for this country to have this. And I go, hey. And I. Then I started to walk around the corner, around the round side of the counter, and I said, hey, it doesn't matter, but you gotta go if you're gonna be yelling. And he goes, I'm gonna cut your head off. And he comes at me and I jack pop him right in the side. He drops, Drops. There he was coming at me. First of all, this is self defense. No bullshit on my end. He goes down. We immediately call the police, and the sheriff's office arrived right there pretty quickly. And he's down.
